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L. TE STRAK E `lam. 3, 1956 GARMENT Filed March 4. 1955 LAMBERTUS TE STR/KE INVENTUR. BY MAMMIM ATTORNEYS United States Patent O GARMENT Lambertus te Strake, Deurne, Netherlands Application March 4, 1953, Serial No. 340,325 Claims priority, application Netherlands March 5, 1952 3 Claims. (Cl. 66-176) The invention relates to a garment consisting of tubular ribbed knitting, e. g. for a jumper, shirt or underwear. It is known that the cold is more readily perceptible on the back than on the breast. This may result from the fact that the back possesses a great mass of muscles, which in order to keep the body upright, always perform work, e. g. when walking, standing or sitting. This mass of muscles has the greatest flow of blood and under equal circumstances of cooling it will lose more heat more rapidly than other parts of the body if because of the dress the body is protected against cooling in an unequal and insuflicent way. Cooling causes a contraction of the blood-vessels, so that less blood can circulate along the back, because of which the working perormance diminishes.

At the breast side the cold is noticed less rapidly, because the breast muscles are of less mass. This applies especially to men, because women are better protected against cold by natural subcutaneous fat layers.

In connection with the above it has already been proposed to make the back body portion of garments double or to provide it with an additional lining.

It is true, that in this way a better heat insulation is obtained by the back body portion, but the working required for obtaining this is complicated. For instance it is necessary to provide the garment with a side seam, so as to be able to fasten the back body portion, and also the connection at the collar or neck opening must be made double, thus making the garment expensive.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a garment which can be fitted with a thicker back body portion in a very easy manner.

According to the invention this is achieved by knitting the back body portion on a larger number of needles per certain distance than are used for the front skirt.

A practical embodiment is obtained according to the invention in that the knitted fabric of back and front body portions are formed as a seamless tube.

According to the invention this can be attained by making the total number of stitches for the back body portion larger than the total number of stitches for the front body portion. Because of the elasticity of the fabric the back body portion contracts and becomes thicker than the front body portion.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 shows a two-part garment;

Fig. 2 shows the ribbed knitting forming the garment.

Fig. 1 shows a two-part garment which is made of the knitting described below. Fig. 2 is a detailed showing of the stitches which comprise the portions of the garment. The front body portion 1 is a so-called one-and-one knitting, i. e. that a stitch 3a lies at the front side of the knitting, and a stitch 3b at the back side of the knitting, while at the transition to the back skirt 2 two stitches 4a lie at the front side and two stitches 4b lie at the back side, a so-called two-and-two knitting. The total number of stitches in total over the back body portion is larger than the number of stitches in the front body portion, but because of the contraction of the two-and-two knitting the width is practically the same as that of the front body portion.

Such a garment can be manufactured in a simple Way by means of a circular knitting machine in which pairs of needles are disposed two and two along a part of the circumference at a greater distance from each other than are the needles on the remainder of the circumference which are arranged one-and-one. Because of this the one face of the tubular knitting becomes thicker than the other face and by using the thicker face for the back body portion side seams or additional linings etc. become unnecessary.

I claim:

l. A knitted garment having a front body portion and aback body portion, said front portion comprised of one and one ribbed knitting and said back portion comprised of two and two ribbed knitting.

2. A knitted garment as claimed in claim 1 in which the total number of stitches of the two and two knitting of the back portion is greater than the total number of stitches of the one and one knitting of the front portion.

3. A knitted garment as claimed in claim 1 in which said front and back body portions constitute a seamless knitted tube.

References Cited in the le of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 213,808 Cave Apr. 1, 1879 FOREIGN PATENTS 26,097 Great Britain of 1901 

